by Oliver
10. September 2014 22:05
Recently, we've decided to add https:// support to Camping.Info. Since we've been running our application servers behind an NGINX reverse proxy for a while now, the natural choice in our setup was to terminate the secured connections at the NGINX server which has CPU usage values somewhere between 1...
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by Oliver
19. August 2014 21:37
I've got quite annoyed by seeing the same ad in my Skype chat window and today I simply had enough of it. Going to Google lead me to this Youtube video which shows how to block ads in Skype by denying access to https://apps.skype.com/ in Internet Explorer. Here's a screen shot, just follow the steps...
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by Oliver
9. August 2014 12:52
Today, I found this dusty piece of code in our code base: Stone-age version public string GetIframeIds() { var result = new StringBuilder(); var first = true; foreach (var iframe in _iframes) { if (!first) result.Append(','); else first = false; r...
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by Oliver
4. July 2014 21:56
In our customizable web portal platform discoverize we offer searching for results using a Google Map. In a recent iteration, we were trying to improve the overall map usage experience, and one thing we wanted to do was to zoom into the map as far as possible for all results to still appear on the m...
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by Oliver
30. May 2014 21:34
Today, I finally decided that I want to get to grips with PowerShell and have it available in my toolbox for those everyday developer tasks. For a fresh start, I wanted to make sure I'm running the latest and greatest of PowerShell, but how do I find out which version I have installed? What version...
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by Oliver
28. May 2014 12:09
Recently, we had to make some space available in one of our SQL Express instances that was getting close to its 10 GB limit of stored data, so I set out to delete some old data from two of our largest tables. One contained about half a million rows, the other a bit over 21 million. Simple Deletion ...
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by Anton
19. April 2014 19:18
We wanted to encrypt our passwords which we store in the web.config of our Webapplication. Most of the WorldWideweb pointed to the use of aspnet_regiis.exe: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/53tyfkaw(v=vs.100).aspx We want to use the encrypted web.config on a few machines, so we need to import...
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by Oliver
22. February 2014 12:37
We're adding some Premium functionality to discoverize right now, and part of that is the so-called Premium block which is a showcase of six Premium entries. Now, choosing the right entries for that block is the interesting part: as long as we don't have six Premium entries to show, we want to fill ...
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by Oliver
6. February 2014 00:23
Not much else to say than what's mentioned in the title. I come across the need to do so mostly before deployments from my machine where I want to update my local master branch to the HEAD of the remote master branch. Here's how to do that: 1: git fetch origin master:master
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by Oliver
28. January 2014 21:24
This is embarrassing. For the n-th time during the past couple of years I've felt an unease waiting for our projects (read: solutions) to compile. I kept seeing this: This is MSBuild using 1 (!), yes, one!, of the 8 CPU cores I've sitting in my machine to get my work done. What about the other 7?...
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